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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Snows of Kilimanjaro.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Harry say “makes the time pass” in the beginning of the story?
(a) Writing
(b) Making love
(c) Singing
(d) Quarrelling

2. Of Harry, the narrator says, “It was not so much that he lied as that” what?
(a) There was no truth to tell
(b) He no longer knew the truth
(c) He had nothing else to say
(d) He needed her money

3. In Harry’s flashback to the fighting in Anatolia, the narrator remarks, “That was the day he'd first seen dead men wearing white ballet skirts and upturned shoes with” what on them?
(a) Bullets
(b) Buckles
(c) Letters
(d) Pompons

4. Who does Harry’s companion call for when she awakens at the end of the story?
(a) Molo
(b) Lent
(c) Hans
(d) Nansen

5. Of Harry’s old life, the narrator says that he had traded it for what when he fell into his relationship with his female companion?
(a) Love
(b) Passion
(c) Security
(d) Admiration

Short Answer Questions

1. What café does Harry describe as being filled with “the smell of dirty sweat and poverty and drunkenness” when dictating to his companion?

2. What drink does Harry ask the African servant to bring him in the beginning of the story?

3. Where is Monte Corona located?

4. In his first flashbacks of memory, Harry recalls “looking out the window and seeing snow on the mountains in” what country?

5. Harry tells his mistress in the story, “Love is a dunghill. And I’m the” what?

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